Come on, it's the very wow Palace

PVP gear for bear tanks is not a bad option at all as long as you're not replacing Clefthoof slots with the PVP S1 options.

S1 Head & Shoulders for bear tanks are the single best options in the game pre-T4 or getting higher arena gear. I don't care what anyone says, I'd rather see a tanking druid in Gladiator Head and Shoulders than any single PVE blue. Not only does the PVP gear offer a substantial amount of Armor, it also offers a large amount of stamina, meta socket (Head) or other sockets (shoulders), all while offering a fairly nice chunk of crit immunity in the form of Resilience.

A few days ago, Eliah mentioned a tragic thing in his list of Undocumented Changes in a recent PTR push: The Stamina disappeared from the new Tier 6 pieces!

There was a pretty big outcry about this, and understandably so. The Burning Crusade has made Stamina a very important stat in all areas of gameplay from PvE to PvP. You need to be able to take blows in the arenas, and almost every raid encounter has multiple sources of random damage to the raid. Stamina is a big deal, which brings us to the good news.